The song Vina Strelay, Skikin'

It's your name.

Life is one of waratia, laura te'raulte, never.

The song Vina Tvuea is your name.

Monatic is one of the most famous and influential singers and musicians and music producers in Ukraine.

I think he talks to Russian people and to Russia, and to them he says,

war is your name.

Go to so be back. Go to me back with war. War is your name.

Kirill, glad to have you here today. You are an historian working in Berlin. We have met to talk about the current war in Ukraine. You have followed the war from the beginning and you're very interested in it, right? Interested is not the proper word.

I'm devastated by everything that happened in Ukraine from the 24th February on. I really experienced it as probably their biggest personal tragedy of my life.

I would say life is really separated in their time before and the time after the war.

May I ask, is it that you love Russia and that you are shocked by what your country does?

Or what is your attitude?

I left Russia almost 32 years ago.

I have a strong developed German cultural identity.

I still consider Russia to be my country and I feel myself at home, let's say, in this space of Russian culture, Russian literature, Russian poetry in particular.

So it's very difficult to bear.

What do you know about the Russians' way of perceiving the events? How large or small is the

consent in the population? You see an overwhelming support for Putin's regime and for the war,

up to 86%. If someone, let's say, a pollster calls you in the evening, you know how to

answer the questions, you know that you have to repeat everything that is considered to be the

official opinion of the Russian authorities. There's not much organized collective protest

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